The
Arab Planning Institute (API) organized a Training Program on
the use of quantitative models in economic policy-making and analysis during
the period from 17/6/2019 to 21/6/2019 for the benefit of the Ministry of
Economy and Finance of the Kingdom of Morocco. The
training program aimed to understand the dynamics of the Moroccan economy and
how to formulate policies based on data, and how to understand complex relationships
between different variables of the macroeconomy, in addition to how to the make
projections, and the study of policy alternatives. This program introduced
trainees in the concept of quantitative relations and how to measure most
important equations based on data and how to conduct policy analysis,
forecasting and assessment of alternative policies based on economic
quantitative relationships.